IPSWICH SPARROW. 
sweep of a major seventh, as below. There is also a mixed- 
toned note in pairs like this, and the full song is a medley 
of these notes very similar to that of the Goldfinch but 
lacking its irrepressible jollity and ‘‘cut glass’”’ clarity of 
tone—in fact, the song is decidedly wheezy! 
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This bird is a common resident of the White Mountain 
region, where one is perfectly sure to find him not only in 
the winter but frequently in spring and sometimes in 
summer. 
ipswich A winter visitant of the Atlantic coast 
SESE n ON from Sable Island, Nova Scotia, south to 
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Mech ceps Georgia, the Ipswich Sparrow is not an 
L. 6.50 inches uncommon denizen of the barren beaches 
October to and sand dunes which lie between these 
eek points. It is the lightest-colored member 
of the Sparrow tribe; upper parts pale brown and 
ashen gray streaked with sepia and cinnamon brown, 
a white line above the eye and a yellow spot in front 
of it, or the latter quite absent, yellow also at the bend 
of the wing as in the Grasshopper Sparrow, the breast 
and sides narrowly streaked with sepia and pale ochre, 
the general marking similar to that of the Savannah 
Sparrow. Nest of dried grasses and moss lined with softer 
material, generally hidden beside a sheltering tussock of 
grass, directly upon the ground. Egg, bluish white thickly 
flecked with cinnamen brown, four-fifths of an inch long. 
To hear the song of the Ipswich Sparrow one must 
journey to Sable Island, its breeding place and summer 
home; one will hear only a few high-toned, tstpping notes 
of this winter visitor among the bleak sand dunes from late 
Autumn to early Spring. The earliest records on the 
southern shores of Long Island are October 12th to 26th 
and the latest are March 7th to April 3d. A patient 
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